While his early backstory remains unrevealed, Solmyr was trapped for a thousand years inside a lamp, until he was freed, at which point he swore an oath to serve his liberator for "as long as his feet walked this world." His saviour was in fact the Immortal King Gavin Magnus, Grand Vizier of Bracada, and as such Solmyr seemed to have sworn an oath he would be forced to carry out for all eternity.